Card. Pell: 1st Syndey archbishop in 40 years to pontificate with 1962 Missal [Fr. Z]

[Catholic_Opinion]

There is a good piecein Zenit about what Card. Pell did in Australia to support *Summorum Pontificum.
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Australia Celebrates Letter on 1962 Missal

SYDNEY, Australia, NOV. 2, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal George Pell will be the** first archbishop in the Sydney Archdiocese in 40 years to celebrate the Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal**, reports the Oriens Foundation.

The archbishop of Sydney will preside Saturday at a Mass said in the extraordinary form at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The event is a celebration on the occasion of Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter “Summorum Pontificum,” published in July.

The letter, issued “motu proprio,” on one’s own initiative, explained new norms allowing for the use of the 1962 missal as an extraordinary form of the liturgical celebration. The norms took effect Sept. 14.

The Australia-based Oriens Foundation, which promotes understanding of the Tridentine rite, said in a press statement that the Mass “represents a significant event in the life of the local Church.”

Gary Scarrabelotti, the Oriens Foundation chairman, said that he hopes that “Summorum Pontificum” will provide the Church “with a splendid opportunity to draw to the attention of the Catholic people, and to the wider community, the great cultural and spiritual merits of the traditional form of Catholic worship.”

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[captaincoog]

I was there. Absolutely beautiful!

My sister came along out of curosity and was very impressed after a diet of modern liturgy all her life. She would like to go to the local Solemn Mass on Sundays now.

Here is a link to some pictures.

thenewliturgicalmovement.blogspot.com/2007/11/cardinal-pells-solemn-pontifical-mass.html

 

[sphilomena]

I was there. Absolutely beautiful!

My sister came along out of curosity and was very impressed after a diet of modern liturgy all her life. She would like to go to the local Solemn Mass on Sundays now.

Here is a link to some pictures.

thenewliturgicalmovement.blogspot.com/2007/11/cardinal-pells-solemn-pontifical-mass.html

The pictures are awesome; what solemnity and beauty! It makes me think of our spiritual ancestors, the Jews, and how much reverence they must have had in the temple. Can’t people see how the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass flowed from the Jewish worship? Rosalind Moss did!

 

[captaincoog]

I agree entirely. During the Mass I was thinking of the Jews in the Temple worshipping the Lord according to His own liturgy which He commanded to be carried out to the letter in Leviticus.

The Lord knew then what the Church knows now, that the outward signs and symbols in our worship of God are absolutely necessary in cultivating the interior worship and reverence before Him, because we are corporate beings, not bodiless angels.

When St John had the vision of the throne of the Almighty and Omnipotent God in the Apocalypse, he described it with terrifying and awesome language.

I was reminded during Mass that it is this same God whom we are approaching at every Holy Mass to worship, to beg for pardon for our sins, render thanksgiving to and ask for supplication from.

At the “dreadful” (in the classical sense of the word) moment of the elevation of the body and blood of His son, I was filled with such awe at the privelige I had to be there at this event. I sensed the participation in the liturgy of Heaven. While I believe and understand that this happens at every Mass, the experiential aspect of it is much more profound at a Mass like this.

Thankyou Cardinal Pell and Benedict XVI.